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  Early years study: reversing the real brain drain

  The Founders' Network, 1999

  New understanding of brain development in the early years and its effects on subsequent learning, behaviour and health for individuals has led a number of governments and other organisations to take steps to provide better circumstances in and outside the home for early child development.
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  Psychosocial intervention in complex emergencies: a conceptual framework

  Psychosocial Working Group, 2003

  This document, produced by the psychosocial working group (PWG), introduces the conceptual framework for psychosocial intervention in complex emergencies developed by the PWG. The framework draws together a range of approaches and issues considered relevant in the field to produce a theoretical model for understanding and intervention.
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  Starting points: meeting the needs of our youngest children

  Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1994

  Across the United States of America, children under the age of three and their parents are facing a crisis caused by changing values and the growing economic pressures on families. Policymakers are rarely forced to contend with this reality so the problems of these young children and their parents remain a quiet crisis.
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  From neurons to neighbourhoods: the science of early childhood development

  National Academies Press, 2000

  The science of early childhood development, as it has grown over the past several decades, has been as fragmented as the services, programmes and policies that exist to address the diverse needs of young children and their families.
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  Measuring the effects of behavior change and service delivery interventions in Guatemala with population-based survey results

  JHPIEGO Consortium, 2004

  This JHPIEGO report, presents the results from the Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) Programme conducted in Guatemala. This programme was also run in Nepal and Burkino Faso. The MNH programme promotes the use of skilled maternal and newborn care, family and community involvement in this care, as well as supportive government policies to sustain these efforts.
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  The evolution of diarrhoeal and acute respiratory disease control at WHO: achievements 1980-1995 in research, development, and implementation

  World Health Organization, 1999

  Produced by the World Health Organization (WHO), this document describes the cycle of research, development, implementation and evaluation followed during the period 1980 to 1995 by three WHO disease control programmes: the WHO Programme for the Control of Diarrhoeal Diseases (CDD), the WHO Programme on Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), and the WHO Division of Diarrhoeal and Acute Respiratory Di
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  Children's risk, resilience and coping in extreme situations: background paper to the consultation on children in adversity, Oxford, 9-12 September 2000

  Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2000

  Following the near-universal ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the protection of children exposed to adversity has now become one of the central priorities of childhood interventions internationally.
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  Achieving universal coverage with health interventions

  The Lancet, 2004

  Known cost effective public health interventions are not reaching developing country populations who need them. Programmes to deliver these interventions are too often patchy, low quality and short-lived, and the people not receiving services are disproportionately from among the poor.
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  Making health systems more equitable

  The Lancet, 2004

  This article, published in The Lancet, looks at the challenges involved in making health systems more equitable and examines a range of mechanisms for achieving this. The authors find that health systems are consistently inequitable, providing more and higher quality services to the well-off rather than to the poor, who need them more.
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  Coping with paediatric referral: Ugandan parents’ experience

  The Lancet, 2004

  This article, published in The Lancet, reports on a study examining the constraints faced by caretakers in completing referrals of severely ill children to hospital in Uganda. The study found that only 28 per cent of children had completed referral after two weeks, and at an average cost of US$8.85.

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